ALMS Baltimore TV Rating

UPDATE The final TV rating for the ALMS race on ABC was a 0.6 with 757,000 viewers tuned in. IndyCar had egg on its face once again with its Versus TV rating that brought only 591,000 viewers, 28% lower than what the ALMS delivered for the city of Baltimore. Thankfully the IndyCar race was also broadcast on ESPN International around the world. Although we have no hard numbers for viewership globally (because IndyCar prefers to look like a loser by just having the Versus numbers) we suspect that if you tally all 160 countries the overall viewership would be 16 million (100,000 per country) or 8 million if you assume 50,000 per country. Either way it dwarfs the hideous Versus number of 0.59 million. After harping on this with Randy Bernard he finally told AR1's Mark Cipolloni in Baltimore last weekend that next year they will be publishing the global number for each race and then IndyCar will begin to look like a winner, instead of a loser.

09/06/11 ABC's tape delay broadcast on Sunday of Saturday's American Le Mans race, earned a 0.5 TV rating. That is one-half of one-percent of the national TV audience of 115 million households. So about 575,000 households were tuned in, which equates to over 600,000 viewers.